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197532706NY: Winchester Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0876911629 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Winchester Press hardcover books
1710252472London: John Morphew 1710. Second edition of vol. I first edition of vol. II. Frontispiece in vol. I. ii vi 246; xvi 380 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf vol. I rebacked preserving most of original black morocco label corners repaired hinges strengthened. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Vol. II with later spine label binding rubbed. Second edition of vol. I first edition of vol. II. Frontispiece in vol. I. ii vi 246; xvi 380 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This famous attack scandalized virtually every member of the Whig Party and led to Mrs. Manley's arrest. A friend and collaborator of Swift's she succeeded him as editor of The Examiner and exercised some influence on Defoe. ESTC N47961; ESTC T106837 John Morphew unknown books
170948524London: John Morphew 1709. Second edition of vol. 1 First edition of vol. 2. 8vo pp. i-vi 1-246; 1-272. With an engraved frontispiece in vol. 1. Some worming to the top margin of a few leaves in vol. 2 not affecting any letterpress some light foxing a very good set. Bound in modern 3/4 calf spine with heavy gilt stamping with new endpapers. Bound in the rear is the scarce keys to both volumes. The Schlueters note in their Encyclopaedia of British Women Writers that this is Manley's most celebrated work . a kind of roman a clef that recounted political intrigue and sexual scandal . includes scenes of homosexual as well as heterosexual orgy drunkeness rape and incest which has given it a sensationalist reputation . Her contribution lies in having forged an authentically feminist realism . and in having braved the negative currents that opposed women's entance into the field of dramatic and fictional literature . She is one of the pioneers of women's literature in English but her work has yet to receive the serious critical attention it deserves. John Morphew unknown books
171157864London: John Morphew 1711. Second edition corrected of vol. 1 First edition of vol. 2. 8vo pp. xx 334; xvo 336. Some light marginal staining some light foxing and marginal staining a very good set. With the ownership signature of "C. A. Anacker" on the corner of the title page. Bound in contemporary speckled brown calf spine gilt with raised bands. Includes the advertising leaf by the publisher and "A Key to the Third Volume of the ATLANTIS call'd Memoirs of Europe." Includes some contemporary annotations presumably by Anacker." The dedication is to Isaac Bickerstaff and contains caustic letters between Richard Steele and Mrs. Manley. Halkett and Laing Vol IV page 50. The Schlueters note in their Encyclopaedia of British Women Writers that this is Manley's most celebrated work . a kind of roman a clef that recounted political intrigue and sexual scandal . includes scenes of homosexual as well as heterosexual sex orgies drunkeness rape and incest which has given it a sensationalist reputation . The second volume for example opens with a piece on the New Cabal a group of wealthy lesbians . Her contribution lies in having forged an authentically feminist realism . and in having braved the negative currents that opposed women's entrance into the field of dramatic and fictional literature . She is one of the pioneers of women's literature in English but her work has yet to receive the serious critical attention it deserves. John Morphew unknown books
19401342077Paris: Payot 1940. Softcover. Octavo; G-/paperback; dark tan spine with black text; small sticker to spine; covers show modest age toning; few creases to spine; chips to corners; intact panels; text block exterior edges age toned; deckled edges; intact binding; some interior pages have foxing; illustrated; some uncut pages; pp 360; text in French. History of Esoteric Doctrines. 1342077. FP New Rockville Stock. Payot unknown books
197140434McCloud CA: McCloud River Railroad 1971. 1st printing presumed. Black ink printed to green printer paper. Moderate wear to edges faint horizontal crease. An about VG example. Single sheet printed both sides. Map illustration printed to recto b/w illustrations and photographic image to verso. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>Includes larger map 11" x 8" alone printed to white paper. McCloud River Railroad unknown books
183812041Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1838. 8vo. 13 pp.; fold. map. <br><br>Includes a folding map titled "Plat sic of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal." Government document: 25th Congress 2d Session. Senate. 271. Removed from a nonce volume; short tear in lower margin not touching text. Mild spotting to final blank page and map. Notation inked above title. Good. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
183812042Washington 1838. 8vo. 13 pp. <br><br>Government document: 25th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 326. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume; short tear at lower margin not touching text. Foxed. Inked numeral in top right corner inked notation at bottom of last page. Good. unknown books
18751379143d Cong. 2d Sess.: HED76. 1875. 72pp disbound partly loosened. Light chipping at heads of a few leaves no text loss. Good. HED76. unknown books
1875172331875. 5 1 blank pp folding map disbound loosened. Worn edges some chipping of corners with no text loss. Light tanning. Good. unknown books
1878726245th Cong. 2d Sess.: SED95. 1878. 52pp 7 folding charts 6 of them quite large. Very Good. SED95. unknown books
18771470144TH Cong. 2d Sess.: HED41. 1877. 67pp Disbound. Very Good. HED41. unknown books
187872631878. 41pp 3 large folding charts. Very Good. unknown books
18681909940th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED247. 1868. 10pp. Disbound. Caption-title as issued. Very Good. HED247. unknown books
1892181841892. Mississippi River Commission print. 1892. Original printed wrappers worn spine shorn re-attached 83pp. Good. unknown books
188436643Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1884. Second edition. Cloth. A very good copy spine ends worn boards rubbed plates fine and quite uncommonly except for two small marginal tears without blemish. 2407-2901 pp. i.e 494 pp. plates. Illus. with 61 folding b/w plates 3 other plates and occasional in-text drawings. 8vo. Published first as part of "48th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc.; No. 37." [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover books
18778042baSt. Louis MO: John J. Daly 1877. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Americana; Mississippi river; 39p.; 19.4cm; original brown soft cloth; Sylvester Waterhouse 1830-1902 from paper delivered at convention in St. Paul MN; cover title: Give us an unobstructed Mississippi; owner marks. John J. Daly Hardcover books
188136639Saint Louis: Great Western Printing Co. 1881. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy extremities worn front hinge starting foxing to endpapers and fore edge presentation stamp on title. 244 pp. 8vo. "Together with a Memorial to Congress prepared by the Committee of Twenty-One as Authorized by the Convention." Gift copy with stamp reading: "Compliments of George L. Wright Secretary" who ran the meeting. Great Western Printing Co. hardcover books
185964413Chicago IL: Press and Tribune Print 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203 51 pp. Folding plate tables. "On the question of whether the railroad bridge from Rock Island Illinois to Davenport Iowa was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River" OCLC. "James Ward a St. Louis steamboat owner filed a bill praying that the bridge be declared a nuisance and ordered removed; in 1866 Congress finally passed an act requiring that the bridge be replaced by another half the cost to be paid by the United States" "The Mississippi River: St. Louis' Friend or Foe" by James Lemly Cambridge U. Press online. Drop-title: "District Court United States. Southern District of Iowa. James Ward vs. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company." Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 413: "Not located title from Heartman Cat. No. 187 June 1926 No. 300." OCLC locates eight copies New York Public Yale Chicago History Museum Harvard-Baker Missouri-St. Louis Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public Library of Congress Newberry. Very good. Original printed olive wrappers some soiling lacking rear wrapper rebacked with archival paper. 10747. <br/><br/> Press and Tribune Print unknown books
1882JC111661882. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled black cloth backed in ornately gilt-ruled black calf; oblong 184 x 132 mm; contains 25 pencil drawings most of them titled and dated. It includes Fort Snelling; Minnehaha Falls; Oak Drive in White Bear Lake; a boat on White Bear Lake; St. Anthony's Falls in Minneapolis; Lake Minnetonka; Wabasha St. Bridge; an Old Brewery in St. Paul; Shanty-ville; Shelter Island New York; Goat Island; plus 3 portraits a bonfire scene and other views of the upper Mississippi River Niagara Falls and St. Paul Minnesota. Boards detached and spine perished; a few leaves loose and laid-in. Skilled work most of it on one side of the leaf therefore removable and suitable for display. <br/><br/>Harley DeWitt Nichols 1859-1939 was born in Barton Wisconsin. He began his education in art as early as 11 years of age. His first job putting his talent and training to use came in the form of an apprenticeship with the Milwaukee firm Marr & Richards where he stayed for 3 years drawing and engraving on wood. The subsequent years included many moves from Milwaukee to Chicago and later to New York where he studied at ASL and was encouraged by Professor Packard to pursue a career as an illustrator at a European school. Nichols left for Munich in October 1885 to attend the Royal Academy where he studied under Heckel became a member of the American Club and socialized with Carl von Marr the clubs president. He went to London for a little while and worked as an illustrator. By 1893 hed returned to New York working mostly in advertising and illustrating for Harpers Weekly and Century magazines. He helped organize the New York Water Color Club. Nichols didnt curb his parapatetic lifestyle until he moved to Laguna Beach California in 1894. The art community in Los Angeles was in its infancy but he got a teaching job at the Echo Mountain summer school and he was inspired by the scenery of Yosemite Monterey San Juan Capistrano and other locations in southern California. He stayed in Laguna Beach until his death in 1939. hardcover books
3055Boston: The Company:Alfred Mudge & Son Printers 1874. . 8vo buff wrappers front printed Boston: [The Company]:Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1874. unknown books
19071873Southeastern Missouri 1907. About very good. Seventy-six silver gelatin photographs on twenty grey card leaves each image approximately 3.75 x 2.25 inches. Square grey cloth album string-tied. Light wear and soiling to covers. Contemporary ink inscription on front pastedown. Light foxing and soiling to leaves heaviest on first three leaves. Leaves lightly warped. Two images excised. A charming vernacular photograph album depicting life along the Mississippi River in the vicinity of the declining town of Gayoso Missouri. The caption on the front pastedown reads "These pictures made in the year of 1907 by Tom Pierce & Ed Cappoc at Goyaso Mo." Gayoso located on the banks of the Mississippi in the southeasternmost tip of the state was settled in 1799 and incorporated in 1851 as the county seat of Pemiscot County. By 1898 the movement of the river threatened to swamp the town and the county seat was moved to several miles south to Caruthersville. Though the river changed course and briefly spared Gayoso by 1900 its post office closed and today any remnants are buried deep in the silt of the Gayoso Bend Conservation Area. The present images show the town disappearing as the river eats away at large swathes of its surrounding land.<br/><br/>Several of the images depict flooding and high water -- trees standing in water men wading to cut lumber riverbank erosion and one image seems to show a collapsed pier. Other views show boats traveling up and down the Mississippi some ferrying lumber several large paddlewheelers and men poling lumber on rafts. One image shows a horse and buggy on what we presume to be the main street of Gayoso with a storefront visible behind the rig. Many of the images show the hardy folk who are still living in the remains of the dying town -- a woman and child in front of a clapboard house with a rotting porch and crumbling roof; a group of boys and three dogs all laughing in front of a building that may be the schoolhouse; one man apparently giving a haircut to his friend seated in front of some steps high water visible amongst the trees in the background; and several images which show men and boys logging and lumbering some of them standing in waist-high water while they fell doomed stands of trees. The album captures a slice of life on the Mississippi River at the turn of the century with all its attendant hardships commercial opportunities and dangers. unknown books
184028329n.p.Newport NY: n.p. 1840. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. Scattered foxing and creases to the last leaf else very good. 11 pp. 8vo. List of Churches and delegates copy of constitution of the newly formed organization reports from various churches mainly in Herkimer County New York. Signed in type by A. B. Earle. OCLC shows only a single copy of this first issue at the Southern Baptist Theol.Sem. Lib. Not in Starr. n.p. unknown books
198724738Boston: Little Brown 1987. first edition. xii 209 p. essays by James H. Duff . et al. chiefly ill. some col. ; 25 x 29 cm. "A New York Graphic Society book." Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum to accompany an international exhibition organized by it. Includes index. DJ. Fine . Additional shipping required. <br/><br/> Little, Brown unknown books
188315606Troy: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 1883. 3 bill receipts for this railroad; for stoves evidently from the Schenectady Stove Co. & M.L. Filley; two from 1883 one from 1884; all signed by the Agent Andros; small vignette of a railroad locomotive tender & freight cars; each 4 1/2" x 8" approx. size; light wear darkened; very good condition. Very Good. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad unknown books
